It’s Friday, let’s do something fun!

It’s Friday, let’s do something fun!

It’s Friday, let’s do something fun!

What’s your favorite stupid thing about wrestling? A terrible gimmick, a silly match stipulation, a ridiculous storyline?

Wrestling is dumb, which is why it’s great. This thread is about dumb stuff that makes you smile.

I’ll start! One of my favorite dumb things is “entrance music distracts a guy so he gets rolled up for the pin.” It’s so dumb! Aren’t these trained professionals able to ignore loud noises while they’re trying to wrestle? But it works every time!

What about you?

36 thoughts on “It’s Friday, let’s do something fun!”

  2. My favorite dumb thing is a serious match being stopped for a seemingly random dance break. 

    I blame Osphirian from CHIKARA for this phenomenon.  But he does do it so well when he does

  5. Maciej Sabat , oh yeah, and the full-body leap into the ringpost! I know it’s cuz their opponent “moved at the last second’ but really, you’re a professional, you should know that 99% of the time that you fling your entire body weight somewhere they’re gonna move out of the way.

  6. Mine would be the flying nothing… When a wrestler jumps off the top rope and someone else blocks them, but if they hadn’t then the guy would have just landed or something… its not like they were going for a move, they were and got countered, they were just jumping!

  7. For me, it’s not in the ring, it’s out of it, when some skit or planned confrontation goes horribly wrong – like during a talk show, or movie tie-in puff piece – and they really don’t know whether to break kayfabe and exit with some dignity, or to tough it through and hope it doesn’t go even worse. The 80s seems to be full of these.

  11. My favorite stupid thing is the kayfabe families and marriages and love triangles and fighting the “boss” storylines. Really? You’re brothers…uh-huh…and you’re married to her…but now she’s hooking up with him? someone in Creative’s been watching Day’s of Our Lives again, haven’t they…

  13. I love when a wrestler gets so worked up during a promo that they start saying things that either don’t make sense or they never intended to say out loud. Randy Savage telling Ric Flair not to buy any unripe bananas, for example.

  15. Oh man, the “Hoakogan” warrior rants make me laugh until my sides hurt…

    But in my case, I love it when a wrestler’s gimmick has them be actively delusional about something — like Hurricane Helms thinking he’s a superhero, Stardust or George “The Animal” Steele being generally weird… although it doesn’t always work.  R-Truth’s “Little Jimmy” bit sometimes fell flat, and Al Snow’s “HEAD” gimmick didn’t take off for me until became the European Champion and started changing his entrance each week to represent a different country in Europe — so when representing Spain, he came out dressed as a bullfighter, and instead of calling out “HEAD!”, he called out “CABEZA!”

    Also, Funaki’s “INDEED” bit will never fail to make me clutch my sides in laughter.

  16. Constantly leaving their opponent on the mat, when they have a clear advantage, to pose for the crowd. I know they do it to give the opponent a breather (on case they really got hurt) but it makes the whole match look so fake.

    Also, the whole throwing each other against the ropes and bouncing back thing. Does that look even a tiny bit realistic to anyone? I guess it’s just something that’s been done for so long, wrestling fans don’t even notice how ridiculous it is.

  17. Any backstage segment where someone tells someone else “their true plan”

    Do their friends & enemies not have enough sense to watch the show and know what’s going on?

    Also, when they Fuck up a move, and then try to go for it again, cause it’s one of their “spots”.

  22. Doink the Clown. The evil Matt Borne version. He was an embarrassment to be watching when the friends came over, and more so after the new face version plus Dink, but I secretly enjoyed the high jinks of the original.  

  29. Also — THE UNDERTAKER IN FULL DEADMAN MODE.  Honestly, it’s ludicrous, it should snap the suspension of disbelief that everything else in the WWE operates on right in half — and yet, he works it so damn perfectly that I can’t help but love it.

    My two favorite moments regarding his entrances — there was a Royal Rumble where Great Khali (ugh) was in full monster-heel mode, wiping out everyone in sight, and just as the timer counts down to #30, Michael Cole calls out something like “Who can stop this man?  Who can save us?”  *BZZZZZ* beat GONG cue audience (and my wife) LOSING THEIR GODDAMN MINDS

    The second was from a couple Wrestlemanias back, when he faced CM Punk.  The camera was on Punk when the gong hit, and you could see Punk marking the fuck out, and you could easily read his mind.  “I’m about to get my ass kicked by the Dead Man!  At Wrestlemania!  FUCK YEAH THIS IS AWESOME!”

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